LeatherPenguin

I have to deal with Meghan McCain’s Day at Occupy Wall Street – The Daily Beast. I’m the daughter of one of the most long-standing senators in politics and I have been given every opportunity that anyone could possibly dream of. I was given those opportunities as a result of the hard work from both [...]

Fighting capitalism via iPhone, Facebook and Twitter is too stupid to take seriously So, now we are in Week 3 of the protesters, occupying encamped on public private property in the Financial District, in order to protest against… well, pretty much everything, it seems (more here). Similar “actions” are forming in other cities, such as [...]

Everyone in the MBM keeps treating August 2 as Judgement Day; that if no deal on the debt ceiling has been reached by then, America automatically goes into default and the gates of hell swing open and DOOM! engulfs the nation’s (nay, the entire global) economy. Which is, of course, complete bullshit. Don’t take my [...]

Nancy Pelosi wasn’t kidding when she said, “we have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” Most people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more costly. … snip … Basically, businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever [...]

Radio Conglomerates Eyed in ‘Payola’ Probe Warner Music Group Corp. agreed last year to pay $5 million to settle its part of the investigation, and Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to pay $10 million. It’s works like this with NYAG Eliot Spitzer. He holds a press conference and levels charges–doesn’t actually file them, most times–against [...]